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“Art upsets, science reassures.” (Braque) Analyse and evaluate this claim.
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"Art upsets, science reassures." (Braque) Analyse and evaluate this claim. The cubist painter Georges Braque once stated, "Art upsets, science reassures." Himself being an artist, thus a part of the "disturbance", he was undoubtedly biased in his claim. However, what validity is there to his statement? The examples which support this claim are plentiful, and as shall be seen, so are those that refute it. Art is born from a creative impulse, a personal interpretation of the world for the appreciation of the majority. Indeed, the greatest of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. On the other hand, science tries to catalogue the patterns of the world, or what is common, with "systematized observation and experiment" (Oxford English Dictionary pag. 814). This is because there is much evidence to believe that nature follows a set of rules. As we have seen in class...
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